Wednesday, February 29, 2012
AND THE WINNER IS.......................................
PEARLEE WARNER from Purvis, MS!! Congratulations!! I hope you enjoy this beautiful bag! Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket and helped to support our Adoption! We raised over $700 to help bring our little one from Ethiopia :)
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The BIG update!
Well Eric and I are terrible bloggers.....Lol! There is so much to catch you up on so hopefully this post won't be too long. But I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you and if you're in the middle of doing something important you might want to come back later when you have a couple of hours to spare...jk (kinda).
I know I have said this in every blog post thus far, but God is totally rocking our socks off! Every single time I get the least bit worried about money or time or pretty much anything involved in this process, God just completely blows my mind with how incredible He is and how perfect His timing is. The past two months have just been mind boggling (you will see what I mean) and I have a couple of amazing stories from last month that I absolutely just have to share with you guys.
As most of you know, we are still in the homestudy portion of the adoption process (more on that in a bit). During the homestudy process there is a home visit where our wonderful social worker will come out to our house and make sure that everything is cool at our house and so forth and so on. They also take pics of every single room in your house including the front and the back yard. I'm really hoping she doesn't open any closet doors or look under the beds..lol. Anyway, I'm pretty sure all of you know that our house has been a work in progress and we are constantly doing some sort of project around here. A few months back we had decided that we should add a deck to the back of our house to help with the appearance of our really old and worn our siding (plus who doesn't want a deck?). Eric's Dad works at City Building Supply in Laurel and had offered to help get the materials for us and he and Eric were gonna build it one Saturday in January. Here is where the story gets awesome. One day while at work Dan (Eric's Dad) is talking to a contractor named Ray and somehow the subject of our adoption and building the deck came up in conversation. During that conversation Ray says "why don't you just let me build it? I think what they are doing is awesome and I just want to do something to be a blessing to them"??????? WHAAAAT!!!!! So the next week as I am getting ready for work Ray and his partner/helper/idk show up at my house AND BUILT OUR DECK! God is crazy good isn't he? I had a wonderful conversation with him and am so incredibly blessed by those two men who just wanted to be a blessing to us. And what a blessing they are! When I told them thank you all they said was "thank you for letting us build it" Our deck is beautiful and God used two sweet humble men who we don't even know to do it. It literally changes my mood and puts a smile on my face every time I walk out of our back door!
A couple of weeks after our crazy deck blessing, I was starting to get a little bit stressed about raising all the funds we need to complete the process. I really have no idea why I let this sin creep into my heart when God has been more than faithful. I try to keep it at bay, but sometimes when you think about it too much it just gets a little overwhelming ( I know that's no excuse). I had a Mary Kay party planned for the next day I was hoping and praying that it would go well to help raise the extra money needed to make our homestudy payments. Well let me just tell you, after the party one of the sweetest girls I have ever met came up to me and said y'all have really been on my heart lately and we just wanted to make a donation toward your adoption. She slipped me a check and I didn't look at it until I got home. My heart is about to beat out of my chest right now and tears are rolling down as I tell you that what she and her precious husband gave was MORE than enough to make our payment! My heart is soooo full and I really don't have adequate words to describe to you what an incredibly awesome and humbling experience that was. Guys if you happen to read this we love you two more than you will know. May Jesus be honored and glorified in your gift. I hope one day that we have the opportunity to be the kind of blessing to someone else that you have been to us. I look forward to the day when we can explain to Ethiopian baby what lengths the body of Christ went to in order to help bring them home!
Wow! Deep Breath--Big Sigh.....
So with that said, I will try to briefly catch you up on where we are which should be pretty easy to do since we're pretty much just hanging out right now. We have had our first two homestudy visits with our sweet social worker Andrea. I think our last visit was the third week in Jan. and we left our mtg to make plans soon for our home visit. Then sometime during the last week in Jan. Andrea sent me an email saying that she was going to have to have surgery and would be out of commission for a couple of weeks but to let her know when we wanted to make our home visit and she would put it on the calender. As it turns out Andrea's surgery was pretty complicated. She spend over a week in ICU, went home, has had some complications, found out the surgery didn't work, and is now back in the hospital gearing up for surgery number two. PLEASE PRAY FOR ANDREA! We are praying and trusting God for her healing. I know that God is being glorified in her trials right now because I have seen the way she has handled this situation. She is the most precious social worker we could have asked for and we hope that she will be able and healthy enough to complete our homestudy, however, it is looking like we may have to switch social workers and right now we are in limbo just waiting to see how this next surgery goes. I just want to be clear with you guys, my concern is for Andrea and not for our homestudy. Even though we were hoping to be completely done with it by the end of this month, God is sovereign and I know wholeheartedly that any kink in our process is only God preparing the way and our child for us.
Love you Much!
Christen
I know I have said this in every blog post thus far, but God is totally rocking our socks off! Every single time I get the least bit worried about money or time or pretty much anything involved in this process, God just completely blows my mind with how incredible He is and how perfect His timing is. The past two months have just been mind boggling (you will see what I mean) and I have a couple of amazing stories from last month that I absolutely just have to share with you guys.
As most of you know, we are still in the homestudy portion of the adoption process (more on that in a bit). During the homestudy process there is a home visit where our wonderful social worker will come out to our house and make sure that everything is cool at our house and so forth and so on. They also take pics of every single room in your house including the front and the back yard. I'm really hoping she doesn't open any closet doors or look under the beds..lol. Anyway, I'm pretty sure all of you know that our house has been a work in progress and we are constantly doing some sort of project around here. A few months back we had decided that we should add a deck to the back of our house to help with the appearance of our really old and worn our siding (plus who doesn't want a deck?). Eric's Dad works at City Building Supply in Laurel and had offered to help get the materials for us and he and Eric were gonna build it one Saturday in January. Here is where the story gets awesome. One day while at work Dan (Eric's Dad) is talking to a contractor named Ray and somehow the subject of our adoption and building the deck came up in conversation. During that conversation Ray says "why don't you just let me build it? I think what they are doing is awesome and I just want to do something to be a blessing to them"??????? WHAAAAT!!!!! So the next week as I am getting ready for work Ray and his partner/helper/idk show up at my house AND BUILT OUR DECK! God is crazy good isn't he? I had a wonderful conversation with him and am so incredibly blessed by those two men who just wanted to be a blessing to us. And what a blessing they are! When I told them thank you all they said was "thank you for letting us build it" Our deck is beautiful and God used two sweet humble men who we don't even know to do it. It literally changes my mood and puts a smile on my face every time I walk out of our back door!
A couple of weeks after our crazy deck blessing, I was starting to get a little bit stressed about raising all the funds we need to complete the process. I really have no idea why I let this sin creep into my heart when God has been more than faithful. I try to keep it at bay, but sometimes when you think about it too much it just gets a little overwhelming ( I know that's no excuse). I had a Mary Kay party planned for the next day I was hoping and praying that it would go well to help raise the extra money needed to make our homestudy payments. Well let me just tell you, after the party one of the sweetest girls I have ever met came up to me and said y'all have really been on my heart lately and we just wanted to make a donation toward your adoption. She slipped me a check and I didn't look at it until I got home. My heart is about to beat out of my chest right now and tears are rolling down as I tell you that what she and her precious husband gave was MORE than enough to make our payment! My heart is soooo full and I really don't have adequate words to describe to you what an incredibly awesome and humbling experience that was. Guys if you happen to read this we love you two more than you will know. May Jesus be honored and glorified in your gift. I hope one day that we have the opportunity to be the kind of blessing to someone else that you have been to us. I look forward to the day when we can explain to Ethiopian baby what lengths the body of Christ went to in order to help bring them home!
Wow! Deep Breath--Big Sigh.....
So with that said, I will try to briefly catch you up on where we are which should be pretty easy to do since we're pretty much just hanging out right now. We have had our first two homestudy visits with our sweet social worker Andrea. I think our last visit was the third week in Jan. and we left our mtg to make plans soon for our home visit. Then sometime during the last week in Jan. Andrea sent me an email saying that she was going to have to have surgery and would be out of commission for a couple of weeks but to let her know when we wanted to make our home visit and she would put it on the calender. As it turns out Andrea's surgery was pretty complicated. She spend over a week in ICU, went home, has had some complications, found out the surgery didn't work, and is now back in the hospital gearing up for surgery number two. PLEASE PRAY FOR ANDREA! We are praying and trusting God for her healing. I know that God is being glorified in her trials right now because I have seen the way she has handled this situation. She is the most precious social worker we could have asked for and we hope that she will be able and healthy enough to complete our homestudy, however, it is looking like we may have to switch social workers and right now we are in limbo just waiting to see how this next surgery goes. I just want to be clear with you guys, my concern is for Andrea and not for our homestudy. Even though we were hoping to be completely done with it by the end of this month, God is sovereign and I know wholeheartedly that any kink in our process is only God preparing the way and our child for us.
Love you Much!
Christen
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